Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Toronto
Pure StorageToronto, Canada
Full Time
Posted January 13, 2026
Apply Now
Application opens on company website
Job Description
The role involves acting as a technical expert in pre-sales activities for data storage solutions, understanding customer needs, designing tailored technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts to drive revenue and customer satisfaction in the enterprise storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales team, account managers, and partners to drive revenue and customer success
- Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products and architectures
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
- Create and deliver technical presentations to customers to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Develop technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends and competitors
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required with 5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred.
- Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions.
- Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, and microservices architecture.
- Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
- Experience contributing significant portions of or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment.
- Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is a plus.
- Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and demonstrating new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases SQL and Oracle is highly desirable.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 136,500 - 205,100 CAD
Role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Ready to Apply?
Join Pure Storage and make an impact in renewable energy
Stay Updated on Sustainability Jobs
Get the latest renewable energy jobs and career tips delivered to your inbox.
Job Alerts
Get notified about new sustainability jobs
More jobs at Pure Storage
Escalation Manager
Pure Storage
NEW
Dublin
Full Time
7h
DC Devops Engineer
Pure Storage
NEW
Bluffdale
Full Time
7h
$104k-156k
Sr. NetDevOps Engineer
Pure Storage
NEW
Dallas
Full Time
7h
$143k-215k
More jobs in Toronto, Canada
Client Revenue Analyst
Metergy Solutions
NEW
Toronto
Full Time
7h
Client Success Specialist
Metergy Solutions
NEW
Toronto
Full Time
7h
Health Planner III
Cannon Design
NEW
Toronto
Full Time
2d
$77k-96k